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By Jeffrey Ivashuk

Criminal law -- Search and seizure -- Investigatory stop -- Reasonable suspicion -- Where law enforcement officer initiated traffic stop after determining that the registered owner of vehicle had an outstanding warrant, officer asked defendant to step out of truck with his driver's license, and once defendant started exiting vehicle, officer knew he was not the registered owner because of his race, officer's actions in pursuing defendant, who fled in response to police presence, were reasonable given defendant's abandonment of a vehicle he clearly did not own on a public roadway, officer's knowledge that defendant was not the owner of vehicle, and defendant's flight from scene -- Motion to suppress properly denied     33 Fla...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on June 13, 2008 (boomark / email).